Both sides tried to keep the upper hand in weapon technology, that's why it was called an "arm's race." A Cold War means a Military Stand-off. An arm's race is needed to conduct a stand-off.
Vladimir Lenin was the first leader of the soveit union! he was in power from october 26, 1917 to January 21, 1924
The soveit union
Soveit Union
June 22 , 1941
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Mikhail Gorbachev is credited with ending the cold war.
The entire population of the ussr during 1945 is unknown due to the war.
Their war-aims - to defeat the Axis troops, and occupy defeated Germany.
Russian astronauts, be they from the old USSR or modern-day Russia, have always been known as 'cosmonauts'.
The Sea of Japan, the Okhotsk Sea, the Bering Sea, the East Siberian Sea, the Lapel Sea, the Kara Sea, the Barents Sea, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Baltic Sea
The Soviet Union split up into a number of republics. Russia is the largest of these, but is still signifcantly reduced in size, in comparison to when it was founded (as the Soveit Union in 1917, during World War I).